Židikai is a village in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, with a population of 364 in 2021. The writer Marija Pečkauskaitė lived here from 1915 for the last 15 years of her life. She's better known as Šatrijos Ragana, "the witch of Šatrija", and her best-known works are Sename dvare (In the Old Estate) and Irkos tragedija (Tragedy of Irka).

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Map of Židikai

Židikai is 22 km west of Mažeikiai on Highway 170.

Buses from Mažeikiai run five or six times a day, taking an hour, then fan out to nearby villages such as Grūstė. One bus per day continues west to Klaipėda. The bus stop is at the highway junction south edge of town.

The village's limited sights are within walking distance.

• 56.319122.01221 Church of St John the Baptist is Roman Catholic. It was built in 1821.
• Independence Monument just north of St John's commemorates local people lost in the country's independence struggle.
• 56.323422.01222 Šatrijos Ragana Memorial Museum, Dariaus ir Girėno g 2, ☏ +370 443 43310. Tu-F 09:00-17:00, Sa 09:00-16:00. Exhibiting the author's life and works. Adult €1. (updated Jun 2025)
• 56.327721.99643 St Anne's Chapel is a small gothic building. The grave of Šatrijos Ragana is within.
• Židikai Park is a green space with ornamental pond along the highway east of the junction.

Margininkų tvenkinys is a lakeside area 3 km southwest of the village. You could probably wild-camp here.

Jolantos parduotuvė is the village store.

Tumasa filling station is on the highway 500 m east of town, open daily 07:00-20:00.

No cafes, bars or anything here.

Nakvynes namai just north of the Independence Monument may have rooms, good luck with that.

There is otherwise no visitor accommodation in Židikai, head to Mažeikiai.

As of June 2025, Židikai and its approach roads have no mobile signal.

• Mažeikiai the district capital is dominated by its oil refinery.
• Plungė has a Cold War missile base.
• Latvia is barely 10 km north: cross at Strėliškiai on dirt road 2713. It's an intra-Schengen open border, but follows the course of a swampy river, so the next nearest crossings are 30 km east or west.